Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-IQ'UI-TY
IN-IQ'UI-TY, n. [Fr. iniquité; iniquitas; in and æquitas, equity.]
- Injustice; unrighteousness; a deviation from rectitude; as, the iniquity of war; the iniquity of the slave trade.
- Want of rectitude in principle; as, a malicious prosecution originating in the iniquity of the author.
- A particular deviation from rectitude; a sin or crime; wickedness; any act of injustice. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. Ps. lix.
- Original want of holiness, or depravity. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li.
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